In this April 17, 2009, file photo, Morrissey performs during the first day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

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Morrissey, who has canceled several shows recently for health reasons, has revealed to Spanish newspaper El Mundo that he has been treated for cancer, reports Rolling Stone. "They have scraped cancerous tissues four times already, but whatever," said the former Smiths frontman, who started a European tour Monday. "If I die, then I die. And if I don't, then I don't. Right now I feel good. I am aware that in some of my recent photos I look somewhat unhealthy, but that’s what illness can do. I’m not going to worry about that. I'll rest when I'm dead."

Time has a slightly different translation of the quote: "I have had four cancer-scrapings, but so what." Rolling Stone notes that Morrissey, 55, has canceled recent concerts because of a bevy of ailments, including pneumonia, Barrett's esophagus, and a bleeding ulcer, among other things.

You would think VETERANJOE would quit attacking Morrissey. I guess there is a fifth scraping in the future.

Crazy Horse

Oct 9, 2014 9:36 AM CDT

The Smiths were brilliant in the 80s and Morrisey alone was equally brilliant for a short time in the early 90s, but like so many of the great bands of my formative years, I prefer to remember them as they were then, and not see them as they are now.